Re: Using SAVSTG to get a quick system backup

[Kirk Goins <kgoins@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A year or so, ago may be 2,  I tried a SAVSTG on a V5R4 system after 
many years of not needing/wanting to use it. Boy was I disappointed with 
the performance on the restore. I don't remember too many of the details 
but I believe I was swapping a system full of 35GB drives to 70GB 
drives. SAVSTG needs to have the Same Number of Disks and they all must 
be the same size or Larger. The restore was taking forever. In the past 
the restore I had experienced was only slightly longer that the save. So 
if it took 4hrs to save it would restore in like 4.5 hrs or less. This 
could be considerably faster than restoring a Save 21 depending on the 
system etc.

Anyway I placed a call to IBM  and was basically told I really shouldn't 
be using this 'old' and out of date cmd. They couldn't find much of 
anybody ( at least after hours ) that was even familiar with it.

On 1/14/2010 7:58 AM, Pete Massiello wrote:
> The key in my example is the same disk configuration, and in the guy in the
> class you said had exact same disk configurations.  I remember way back
> using this for some saves, and we had problems with the restores because the
> disks were not the same configuration, and then we had multiple ASPs to
> complicate this even more.
>
> 	Pete
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